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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-23-059443"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001031623"
company_name: "GULF ISLAND FABRICATION INC"
filed_at: "2023-11-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T18:54:45.892897+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gulf Island amends by-laws to update advance notice provisions for shareholder proposals and nominations

## Summary
- Board amended by-laws effective Nov 2, 2023 to address Rule 14a-19 and make ministerial changes.
- Shareholders must comply with Rule 14a-19 for director nominations; failure may cause votes to be disregarded.
- Shareholders soliciting proxies from others must use a proxy card color other than white.
- Nominating shareholders must represent intent to solicit at least 67% voting power and provide evidence of compliance.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-23-059443
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001031623
- company_name: GULF ISLAND FABRICATION INC
- filed_at: 2023-11-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1031623/000095017023059443/0000950170-23-059443-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1031623/000095017023059443/gifi-20231102.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GULF ISLAND FABRICATION INC: Amended and restated bylaws to modify advance notice provisions for shareholder proposals and nominations, addressing Rule 14a-19 and making other ministerial and clarifying changes (effective 2023-11-02).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-11-02
  source text: On November 2, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Gulf Island Fabrication, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s By-laws (as amended and restated, the “By-laws”), effective immediately, to modify the advance notice provisions for shareholder proposals and nominations to, among other things, address Rule 14a-19 and to make other ministerial, clarifying and conforming changes (principally in Sections 1.1, 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 3.3, 4.1 and 5.2).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1031623/000095017023059443/0000950170-23-059443-index.htm

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